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One to watch: Iggy Azalea

Kate Mossman, The Guardian, 24 March 2013

IGGY AZALEA has a highly developed sense of the absurd. She saw paparazzi outside her hotel this morning and felt obliged to put on dark glasses and look really miserable. Like fellow rapper Azealia Banks (no relation) she has a talent for licking suggestively at bits of fruit while singing about oral sex (her YouTube breakthrough was a song called 'Pu$$y'): she's 22, Australian and supporting Nas at the O2 in three hours' time, which is worrying because she talks so much she's rapidly losing her voice.

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